Perhaps a display to look forward to

[Zap]

The Most Impressive Demo at CES

Sony was showcasing a handful of prototype OLED displays, with no release date or product in sight, it was still the most impressive looking demo at CES. Sony?s arrangement consisted of a number of 11? OLED displays and a single 27?. The 11? displays had a native resolution of 1024 x 600 and the 27? was a full 1920 x 1080 display.

Thanks to the use of OLED technology, these displays are extremely thin; the 11? models were around 3mm thick while the 27? display was approximately 10mm thick. The displays were simply looping several high color/contrast video scenes, but with very little motion going on in them. What we could see was absolutely amazing and put every other display at CES to shame, bar none.

Other than a very thin panel, the use of OLEDs meant that you could get some very wide viewing angles when looking at these displays. We tried our best to show it in our pictures but you could almost stand at the very edge of the display and still get a very clear, bright picture.

From what I remember of early implementations of OLED (someone correct me if wrong) was that the refresh rate was slow and the displays had a limited life. If those problems have been solved and cost isn't prohibitive, then I'm looking forward to that 27" display on my desk.

(For all the 19"/22" LCD haters, save the pixel size/dot pitch and relatively low resolution arguments for some other time, you know these displays are sexy!)

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Yeah I know, I want one so bad. Although its discouraging that those demos only had slow moving demos so they might have been trying to hide a potential refresh rate weakness.

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: Zap

From what I remember of early implementations of OLED (someone correct me if wrong) was that the refresh rate was slow and the displays had a limited life. If those problems have been solved and cost isn't prohibitive, then I'm looking forward to that 27" display on my desk.

(For all the 19"/22" LCD haters, save the pixel size/dot pitch and relatively low resolution arguments for some other time, you know these displays are sexy!)

oled is suppose to have virtually zero refresh times, which would be vastly superior compared to lcds.

 

[CP5670]

It's great to hear some news about these again. They had seemingly fallen off the radar for the last six months or so. It's too bad there is still no specified release date though.

 

[stnicralisk]

How would these be for gaming. Would the refresh rate be higher? Pixel changes be faster? Ghosting? True Black? I want to know how this affects me since my CRT is beginning to die.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: stnicralisk
How would these be for gaming. Would the refresh rate be higher? Pixel changes be faster? Ghosting? True Black? I want to know how this affects me since my CRT is beginning to die.

Your CRT will be dead long before any sort of OLED monitor materializes to market

Which is really unfortunate...the technology sounds wonderful.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: stnicralisk
How would these be for gaming. Would the refresh rate be higher? Pixel changes be faster? Ghosting? True Black? I want to know how this affects me since my CRT is beginning to die.

If you read the article... 1,000,000:1 contrast...so yeah...

From all that I've read about OLED, its pretty much the perfect technology except for the lifespan which is its huge Achilles' heal.

 

[imported_RedStar]

LCD's do NOT have a refesh rate in the traditional sense ...they are forced to act like CRT's.

So i imagine oled will be the same way.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_8.html

read that for a full and interesting explanation.

Having said that ...120HZ refresh rate LCD's were on view at ces.
ETA: 6 months.